The heartbreaking news that Minnesota Vikings’ Adrian Peterson’s son was murdered at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend has taken another strange twist. The child’s mother Ashley Doohen had informed the NFL star that he was the child’s father three months before his death and that Peterson had never met the child until he was hospitalized, shortly before his death.

The NY Post report said the Doohen contacted AP after her ex took a paternity test and it proved he was not the child’s father.